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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker   In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

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Writer

George Orwell

Language

English

ISBN

9781328869333

Number of pages

304

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esracann.

04.05.2023

04.05.2023

Günümüz Türiye'sine ışık tutan, tüyleri diken diken eden bir kitap. Okurken "bu kadar da olmaz" dediğim her ne varsa hepsini yaşattılar, sağ olsun. Distopik evrenler her zaman içine çekmiştir zaten beni ama 1984 başka. Acı ama gerçek bir tecrübeydi. Bir daha okuyabilir miyim? Sanmam. Ağır, özümsenmesi zor ve sarsıcı bir kitap.


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Güneş

03.05.2023

03.05.2023

Muhteşem bir kitap ben 2 sefer okudum. Kütüphanede olması gereken kitaplardandır. Sürükleyici ve düşündüren hatta korkutan bir kitap. :)


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befe

07.04.2023

07.04.2023

Düşünmek şimdilik suç değilken düşüncelerimizin ortasında 1984 distopyasını her zaman bulundurmamız gerekiyor. George Orwell’ın düşünen insanlara bir teşekkür niteliğinde yazdığı 1984, aslında düşünmenin sadece dayatılanı düşünmek olmadığını bilen insanların asla unutmayacağı bir kitap.

1984 - George Orwell

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” 
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”  
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” 
“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.” 
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” 
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” 
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” 
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” 
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”  
“It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.”
“It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.” 
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” 
“But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith.”
“If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones
“Sanity is not statistical.” 
“Where there is equality, there can be sanity.” 
“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” 
“Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying.”
“To die hating them, that was freedom.”